I went to New Orleans once before 9/11. It was horrible.
Yep, S**t City, USA.
They should have let Pontchartrain run it over after Katrina.
The most entertaining things I found in New Orleans were the Dancing Cockroaches in my alleged “5 Star Hotel Suite!”
Haven’t been back since!!.......and Thrilled about never being there again!.........;-)
Well, we were always told to be careful where we went, especially at night. But, Brennan’s is in a so-called “safe” zone. No more, I guess.
We always confined our activities to Royal Street and steered clear of Bourbon Street.
Mu husband’s last trip to NO was just weeks after Katrina. He and a friend had booked a hotel room on the edge of the Quarter because they were going there to help out a business colleague by moving some of the business contracts that they could no longer fulfill to our plant.
The two men pulled up in front of the hotel and started to pull out their luggage.
An armed guard greeted them with “Where do you think you are going?” It seems that the hotel had been taken over by FEMA because they were still re-connecting services and looking for bodies. My husband and his friend explained that they had a reservation.
“No, you don’t” replied the guard.
So much for a travel agent booking your room in advance!
They went inside to sort this out. Finally management gave them a room for 2 nights. Meals were served on a family style basis, only. It was during the World Series, and nobody was even in the bar to watch the games in the evening.
Many of the “guests” were search and recover teams with their dogs. The handlers would come in after a long day of work recovering bodies, grimy and tired, and they then had to care for their dogs. Each dog was bathed and his feet checked for wounds. Up again at dawn, the handlers would eat breakfast, feed the dogs, and grab a sack lunch and be off for the day.
My husband and his friend ate one night with a very nice, middle class, black couple who had lost two homes in the storm — theirs and the one next door which they had purchased as a rental for retirement income.
New Oreleans has had a really hard time in recent years, and a few people have given a nice city a really bad name. Pity.